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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Grasshoppers (Caelifera) » Short-horned Grasshoppers (Acrididae) » Spur-throated Grasshoppers (Melanoplinae) » Melanoplini » Melanoplus » Scudder's Short-wing Grasshopper (Melanoplus scudderi)
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Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper - Melanoplus scudderi - male - female
Copyright © 2005 Cotinis

Scudder's Short-winged Grasshopper - Melanoplus scudderi - Male Female
Power line right-of-way, Duke Forest, west of NC 751, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
October 1, 2004
Size: 18 mm (M) , 24 mm (F)
There were several of these short-winged Melanoplus in brushy vegetation in this old-field habitat. I believe them to be M. scudderi, or at least members of that species group--see guide page for indentification references.

Size measured by photographing adjacent to a scale (they were very cooperative), and is somewhat approximate, due to the contorted postures of the grasshoppers.
Image updated 9/1/20.

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Contributed by Cotinis on 10 October, 2005 - 4:28am
Last updated 1 September, 2020 - 5:18pm

Patrick,
Great shots.
… Lynette Elliott, 10 October, 2005 - 6:40am login or register to post comments

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